Remarks Prepared for Delivery by Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey at The Commonwealth Club of San Francisco, March 27, 2008. Read the full text of the speech. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here....

US v. Anibal Acevedo Velo et al., United States District Court for the District of Columbia, March 24, 2008 [federal grand jury indictment of Puerto Rican Gov. Anibal Acevedo Vila on 19 counts of conspiracy, false statements, wire fraud, federal...

A magistrate in Zimbabwe on Thursday handed down a six-month suspended jail sentence to the first white farmer convicted for refusing to vacate his farm after it was declared state property under Zimbabwe's farm seizure program...

The Belarus KGB Thursday detained at least 16 journalists and searched their homes and offices for materials that allegedly libel Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko . The Belarus Deputy Prosecutor General said that the searches...

The UN has raised sufficient funds to cover the first-year costs of an international tribunal with the mandate of investigating and trying suspects in the 2005 assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri , UN Legal...

US Attorney General Michael Mukasey said Thursday he would personally ensure that the US Department of Justice (DOJ) does not bow to political pressure as it prosecutes government officials for corruption. In a speech ...

UK Secretary of State for Defence Des Browne admitted Thursday that British soldiers had violated the human rights of several Iraqi detainees in Basra in 2003, saying that the Ministry of Defence would specifically admit to substantive...

Green Party of Michigan, et al. v. Michigan Secretary of State Terri Lynn Land, US District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, March 26, 2008 [ruling that a Michigan election law that limits access to information on presidential primary...

The UN Human Rights Council passed a resolution Thursday urging Sudan to address human rights violations and to prosecute perpetrators of rights abuses. The resolution, introduced by Egypt, also acknowledged that Sudan had instituted some measures to...

Proposals put forth by the European Commission to regulate passports and create a centralized fingerprint database fail to adequately address privacy concerns, the head of the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) said in an opinion...